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In Almodóvar’s ‘Parallel Mothers,’ history, loss, and romance reliably intersect

Whether doing more meditative, inward-facing work like Pain and Glory or plying his more familiar trade of melodrama, Pedro Almodóvar’s playful, questing, mode of filmmaking never feels unwelcome. His newest, Parallel Mothers, falls basically in the latter space of romantic melodrama, making much of grand feelings which bleed through the boundaries between the public and […]

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